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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>Do not err, my beloved brethren.</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.</td>
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<td class="v">1:18</td>
<td>Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</td>
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<td class="v">1:19</td>
<td>Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:</td>
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<td class="v">1:20</td>
<td>For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.</td>
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<td class="v">1:21</td>
<td>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.</td>
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<td class="v">1:22</td>
<td>But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.</td>
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<td class="v">1:23</td>
<td>For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:</td>
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<td class="v">1:24</td>
<td>For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.</td>
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<td class="v">1:25</td>
<td>But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.</td>
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<td class="v">1:26</td>
<td>If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.</td>
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<td class="v">1:27</td>
<td>Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.</td>
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